The Ministry of Law and Justice has notified the appointment of Advocates and Judicial Officers to be the Judges/Additional judges of four different High Courts.

The Law Minister, Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, announced this development on X yesterday. His tweet read, "In exercise of the powers conferred by the Constitution of India, in consultation with Chief Justice of India, the President is pleased to appoint the following Advocates/ Judicial Officersas Judges / Additional Judges in the High Courts:-"

The appointments are as follows:

Madras High Court:

Advocates as Judges-

1. Govindarajan Krishnaswamy,

2. Rajnish Pathiyil,

3. Ramesh Natarajan,

4. G.K. Muthukumaar,

5. Ramakrishnan Rajesh Vivekananthan

Advocates as Additional Judges-

1. Raveekumar Sankaranarayanan,

2. Dilip Kumar Nagarajan and

3. Ellappan Manoharan

Judicial Officers as Additional Judges-

1. Dr. P. Murugan,

2. Smt. M. D. Sumathi,

3. Smt. S. Alli,

4. Smt. C. Thirumagal,

5. Shanmugam Karthikeyan,

6. Murugesan Baluchamy and

7. N. Gunasekaran

Calcutta High Court:

Advocates as Additional Judges-

1. Aryak Dutt,

2. Atarup Banerjee,

3. Sandip Kumar De,

4. Partha Pratim Roy,

5. Sudip Deb,

6. Anuj Singh,

7. Arjun Ray Mukherjee and

8. Rishad Medora

Karnataka High Court:

Advocates as Additional Judges-

1. Raghavendra Seetharam Srivatsa,

2. Smt. Hema Kulkarni,

3. Subramanya Rangarao,

4. Vivekananda Thadagavadi Prakash,

5. Pramod Bakkeswara and

6. Shanthi Bhushan Hombe Gowda

Madhya Pradesh High Court:

Advocate as Additional Judge-

1. Amit Lahoti

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